Wales Transact-SQL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Transact-SQL over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Location Altrincham Amersham Ayrshire Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Iver Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	71
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching permanent IT job ads	74	42
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	8.696 %	4.941 %
Salaries quoted	73	34
Average minimum salary	£30,747	£27,265
Average salary	£35,042	£29,412
% change on same period last year	+19.14 %
Average maximum salary	£39,337	£31,559
UK excluding London average salary	£35,330	£36,926
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Programming Languages Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	851	850
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.551 %	0.379 %
Salaries quoted	785	794
Average minimum salary	£29,742	£27,673
Average salary	£33,334	£30,938
% change on same period last year	+7.74 %
Average maximum salary	£36,926	£34,203
UK excluding London average salary	£35,693	£35,932
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Transact-SQL UK

Transact-SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Transact-SQL
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Wales region.

Transact-SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Transact-SQL across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

Transact-SQL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Transact-SQL within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+25	58	£35,810	+24.11 %
North Wales	+14	13	£30,769	-13.01 %

Transact-SQL UK

Transact-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Transact-SQL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Transact-SQL.

1 120 (97.56 %) SQL 2 109 (88.62 %) SQL Server 3 101 (82.11 %) .NET 4 88 (71.54 %) VB.NET 5 78 (63.41 %) VB 6 76 (61.79 %) C# 7 68 (55.28 %) ASP.NET 8 61 (49.59 %) VB6 9 59 (47.97 %) ASP 10 57 (46.34 %) WebServices 11 56 (45.53 %) Windows 12 43 (34.96 %) SQL Server 2005 13 41 (33.33 %) IIS 14 33 (26.83 %) Internet 15 32 (26.02 %) LINQ

16 31 (25.20 %) Silverlight 17 19 (15.45 %) Visual Studio 18 18 (14.63 %) RIA 19 16 (13.01 %) XML 20 15 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2000 20 15 (12.20 %) Windows Server 2003 20 15 (12.20 %) Microsoft 21 14 (11.38 %) Project Management 22 13 (10.57 %) OO 22 13 (10.57 %) Pensions 23 12 (9.756 %) DTS 24 11 (8.943 %) B2B 24 11 (8.943 %) Finance 24 11 (8.943 %) Unit Testing 25 10 (8.130 %) B2C

Transact-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Transact-SQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Transact-SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 101 (82.11 %) .NET 2 68 (55.28 %) ASP.NET 3 59 (47.97 %) ASP 4 57 (46.34 %) WebServices 5 32 (26.02 %) LINQ 6 31 (25.20 %) Silverlight 7 16 (13.01 %) XML 8 8 (6.504 %) .NET Framework 9 5 (4.065 %) AJAX 10 4 (3.252 %) CSS 11 3 (2.439 %) HTML 11 3 (2.439 %) ADO.NET 12 2 (1.626 %) JSP 12 2 (1.626 %) SOAP 12 2 (1.626 %) EJB 12 2 (1.626 %) J2EE 12 2 (1.626 %) Hibernate 12 2 (1.626 %) WebSphere 12 2 (1.626 %) JSF 13 1 (0.813 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 41 (33.33 %) IIS 2 4 (3.252 %) OpenROAD 2 4 (3.252 %) SAS 3 2 (1.626 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (0.813 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (4.065 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.439 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 33 (26.83 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 109 (88.62 %) SQL Server 2 43 (34.96 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2000 4 12 (9.756 %) DTS 5 9 (7.317 %) Crystal Reports 6 6 (4.878 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 5 (4.065 %) Datawarehouse 7 5 (4.065 %) OLAP 8 4 (3.252 %) Ingres 9 2 (1.626 %) MS Access 9 2 (1.626 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 2 (1.626 %) SQL Server 2008 9 2 (1.626 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 1 (0.813 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 19 (15.45 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (2.439 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.626 %) JUnit
General 1 13 (10.57 %) Pensions 2 11 (8.943 %) Finance 3 7 (5.691 %) Government 4 5 (4.065 %) Health 5 4 (3.252 %) Insurance 6 3 (2.439 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (1.626 %) Aerospace 7 2 (1.626 %) Automotive 7 2 (1.626 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.813 %) Billing 8 1 (0.813 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.813 %) Law	Job Titles 1 66 (53.66 %) Developer 2 40 (32.52 %) .NET Developer 3 28 (22.76 %) VB.NET Developer 4 25 (20.33 %) Software Developer 5 19 (15.45 %) Architect 5 19 (15.45 %) Analyst 5 19 (15.45 %) Programmer 6 18 (14.63 %) C# Developer 6 18 (14.63 %) Technical Architect 7 15 (12.20 %) Solutions Architect 7 15 (12.20 %) Analyst Programmer 7 15 (12.20 %) Technical Solutions Architect 8 13 (10.57 %) Senior Developer 9 7 (5.691 %) CSharp Software Developer 10 5 (4.065 %) DBA 10 5 (4.065 %) SQL Developer 10 5 (4.065 %) SQL DBA 10 5 (4.065 %) Applications Developer 10 5 (4.065 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 11 4 (3.252 %) Development Manager
Miscellaneous 1 18 (14.63 %) RIA 2 2 (1.626 %) NHS 3 1 (0.813 %) Social Network 3 1 (0.813 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 56 (45.53 %) Windows 2 15 (12.20 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (11.38 %) Project Management 2 13 (10.57 %) OO 3 11 (8.943 %) B2B 3 11 (8.943 %) Unit Testing 4 10 (8.130 %) B2C 5 7 (5.691 %) ERP 5 7 (5.691 %) UML 6 5 (4.065 %) Workflow 6 5 (4.065 %) Migration 6 5 (4.065 %) Data Migration 7 4 (3.252 %) Agile Software Development 8 3 (2.439 %) Project Planning 8 3 (2.439 %) Requirements Analysis 8 3 (2.439 %) OOP 9 2 (1.626 %) OOA/OOD 9 2 (1.626 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (1.626 %) Extreme Programming 9 2 (1.626 %) Business Analysis 9 2 (1.626 %) Data Analysis 9 2 (1.626 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 120 (97.56 %) SQL 2 88 (71.54 %) VB.NET 3 78 (63.41 %) VB 4 76 (61.79 %) C# 5 61 (49.59 %) VB6 6 8 (6.504 %) Java 7 5 (4.065 %) JavaScript 8 4 (3.252 %) C 9 3 (2.439 %) C++ 9 3 (2.439 %) VBScript 9 3 (2.439 %) VBA 10 1 (0.813 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 5 (4.065 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (1.626 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.813 %) Degree	Vendors 1 15 (12.20 %) Microsoft 2 5 (4.065 %) Oracle 3 3 (2.439 %) Metastorm 4 2 (1.626 %) Sybase 5 1 (0.813 %) Progress 5 1 (0.813 %) SAP